Wednesday, September 29, 2010

This October, Port Yonder Press is opening its doors to family-friendly fantasy and spec fiction, both adult and young adult, with a word count slot between 50,000 and 100,000.

So, what does the publisher mean by "family-friendly"? This is what she says about what we don't want:

We don’t want tales of buxom amazons or blatant sex. We don’t mind being scared but we’d rather have some horror with our fantasy, not the other way around. We don’t mind tasteful battle violence, but we don’t like gore for gore’s sake. We don’t mind magic, but we don’t like when both good and bad magic are occultish. We don’t like preachy; we’d rather experience what you have to say through the story. We’ll look at Steampunk, and we love genre hybrids, but we don’t want stories that could be more easily classified as science fiction than fantasy. If you have a story that’s been done before and done well, you will have to wow us with your originality.

What we want is excellence in writing and story crafting. If you have a polished manuscript and you're ready to submit, consider submitting to us at Port Yonder Press.

Disclaimer

Please note that the views put forth in guest posts and comments do not necessarily reflect the views or beliefs of AuthorCulture as a whole or the AC writers individually.Material on this site is copyrighted. For permission to re-post or use posts, please contact the individual authors. For sharing a post in its entirety, please use the share buttons on the post.